Node Version Manager (NVM) is a utility to help you quickly install and switch between Node versions. So if you were doing any development with io.js or v1.0.x+ versions then you'd have to switch back and forth between Node/io.js versions to use Ghost.īetween the fast-paced releases and having to support multiple versions of Node, there's got to be an easier way to switch between versions. This became a big problem for developers needing to support multiple versions of Node for their libraries and for users who had to switch between versions for different software.įor example, the popular blogging platform Ghost only supported v0.10.0 and v0.12.0 for a long time. Installing Node isn't the easiest process, or at least it isn't convenient to constantly be uninstalling and reinstalling it every few days. A big part of this jump was the merging of io.js in to Node, which was under much more rapid development. There were 35+ releases in that time period, with each one adding some significant functionality or bugs fixes.

Within the past 6 months alone, Node.js has gone from v0.12.x to v5.1.x.

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